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New Economy or Transnational Ownership? The Global Political Economy of Israel

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2002

An analysis of the political economy of Israel during the 1990s.

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Global Accumulation and the New Middle East Wars

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2002

The unravelling of the Middle-East peace process continues to baffle the pundits. The early optimism of the Oslo peace accord has now turned into despair. Prime minister Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist. The Palestinians have embarked on a new Intifada. And Israel has re-occupied...

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The End of Neoliberalism?

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2003

This article was commissioned by the French newspaper Le Monde. The newspaper was one of several sponsors of an International Conference on Global Regulation, held at the University of Sussex on May 29-31, 2003, where we presented a plenary paper. As part of its sponsorship, Le Monde agreed to...

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The Scientist and the Church

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - 2005

, including ‘It’s All About Oil’ (2003), ‘Clash of Civilization or Capital Accumulation?’ (2004), ‘Beyond Neoliberalism’ (2004 …) and ‘Dominant Capital and the New Wars’ (2004). In their paper, the Retort group credits us for having coined the term …

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Israel's Roaring Economy

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2007

Many observers of the Israeli scene have been perplexed by the country’s apparent resilience to bad political news. The headlines of late seem uniformly dreadful. While the country is still licking its wounds from a botched, if not humiliating war with Hezbollah, the Palestinian territories...

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From Welltop to Laptop?

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2008

Over the past decade, soaring commodity prices have had a relatively minor impact on the overall level of prices, at least by historical standards. Whereas oil is twelve times more expensive now that it was in 1999, consumer prices in industrialized countries are only 20 per cent higher. This...

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Imperialism and Financialism. A Story of a Nexus

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2009

Over the past century, Marxism has been radically transformed in line with circumstances and fashion. Theses that once looked solid have depreciated and fallen by the sideline; concepts that once were deemed crucial have been abandoned; slogans that once sounded clear and meaningful have become...

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Notes on the State of Capital

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2010

These notes are transcribed from a commentary on a paper by Sean Starrs, titled 'State and Capital: False Dichotomy But … Still Inter-Related'. Both the paper and the commentary were presented as part of an integrated panel series on 'Capital as … Starrs claims that we need to discard our notion of the 'state of capital'. The gist of his argument is simple enough …

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Capital as Power: Toward a New Cosmology of Capitalism

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2010

tell us what capital is. Liberals and Marxists think of capital as an economic entity that they count in universal units of …. They cannot explain the process that matters most – the accumulation of capital. This breakdown is no accident. Every mode … power kept changing, and as the power underpinnings of capital became increasingly visible, the science of political economy …

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Imperialism and Financialism. A Story of a Nexus (Revised and Expanded)

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2010

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